Tricot a meias

Estou quase a acabar!

2008-10-14T17:25:00.001Z

Quase quase quase!!!!!!!!!!!
mas ainda não tenho imagens!
quase quase quase!
Há anos que não termino nada de "malhas"!

Cache coeur......

2008-08-19T22:55:00.003Z

Fiz este pequeno "Cache col"......técnica mista.
Dei a uma grande amiga..como presente.
Nunca mais o vi.
Acho que ele foi mais um "cache coeur".

"Knitting Madonna" - Tricot no XIV!

2008-08-19T15:14:00.006Z

A pintura "The Visit of the Angels" ou a "Knitting Madonna" do Meister Bertram of Minden (pintor alemão ca. 1340 - 1414) representa a Virgem Maria a tricotar uma camisola com 4 agulhas! Esta imagem faz parte do Altar de Buxtehude, (painel direito), Alemanha.

The History of knitting by Julie Theaker

2008-08-19T15:02:00.006Z

The history of knitting is mostly a big mystery, guessed at from fragments kept in museums around the world. Knitting is made of wool, silk, and other fibers that decay rapidly, even under perfect conditions; knitting needles are essentially sharpened sticks, and hard to identify as knitting needles beyond a doubt; they could be hair picks, skewers, spindles, or any of the other zillion uses there are for a sharpened stick. In the past, when spinning was all by hand and much more time-consuming, many sweaters that didn't fit were raveled and re-knit. Yarn wasn't discarded until it wore out. Add in that not many people in the past thought to save their everyday items for their descendants, and there aren't many useful knitted objects left for us to find, all these years later. Once in a while we get lucky. The archeological evidence we have is very interesting, and there are other ways to date things.
Linguistically, all evidence implies that knitting is a fairly recent invention. There are no ancient legends of knitting like there are legends of spinning and weaving (remember Arachne? Ixzaluoh? Nephthys? Amaterasu? Never mind... the numbers of weaving and spinning gods and mostly goddesses are legion). There are no ancient gods or goddesses who knit, no legend of how it was invented or given by the gods. That lack implies that it is a recent skill, developed after mythologies were established around the world. It's a shame, because I think a knitting goddess would be cool... maybe we could make one up?
A quick cruise of the Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary also reveals that the term 'to knit' wasn't added to English until the 1400s. Further poking around will reveal that any term meaning 'to knit', specifically make loops with two long, straight needles, wasn't in any European language before the Renaissance. Other than the Middle East, and Spain, other places in the world were even later in their assigning words for knitting. It's pretty obvious; knitting hasn't been around that long.
Most of what we're left with in terms of physical evidence is a tiny pile of knitted fragments, and a lot of speculation. And did I mention the knit fragments are really hard to interpret? Before the development of knitting, a craft called nalbinding was used to make stretchy fabrics. (Go here for a quickie lesson on how nalbinding is done. The drawbacks are obvious immediately.) Termed 'one needle knitting' by some museums, it is similar to knitting in structure, but stronger, less stretchy, and a lot more difficult to create. The resulting fabric would look very sloppy unless done by a master, and it wasn't something you could have the kids do while tending the sheep -- unlike knitting.

These socks date to the 300s, and are made by nalbinding. They look very much like crossed-stitch or twisted-stitch knitting.
As a fine example of the nalbinding/knitting confusion, the famous (notorious?) Dura-Europos fragment is considered by many to be the oldest fragment of knitting in existence. Found in the Indus River Valley and dating back several thousand years, it is listed in many books and the original dig report as knitting (I sincerely wonder if they HAD a knitter on the original dig.) Barbara Walker has even written a pattern so we can all knit something historical. Unfortunately, the Dura-Europos fragment has been proven to be made of nalbinding. Still, the knit version would make a cool pair of socks.
Image from "A History of Hand Knitting" by Richard Rutt, p 30. Fragment currently at Yale University.
The oldest REAL knitting (formed on two sticks by pulling loops through loops) we've got is 'Coptic socks' from Egypt, dating to around the year 1000 CE. There are quite a few fragments, all of them done in shades of white and indigo, in stockinette. Many of them have Khufic (a decorative Arabic script) blessings knit into them, or symbols to ward off evil, or both. All look really cool. And may I point out for the fiber-snobs among us, that all of the really ancient knitted fragments we've got are knit out of cotton. Yes indeedy, cotton. Wool wasn't used for knitting until way later.

Here are some of the earliest sock fragments we've found. You can see the patterns are already quite complex. From "Folk Socks" by Nancy Bush, p. 13 and this page.
These socks bring me (and more importantly real, trained archeologists) to a conclusion; knitting's probably a little older than we think, because the first fragments we've got are good-looking, well-made, complex designs. To put it another way, would YOU do stranded-color socks as your first project, particularly if you were making it up as you went and had no one to teach you? With that in mind, given our thousand-year-old fragments, knitting might be eleven hundred, twelve hundred years old, allowing for a lifetime or two for people to invent the methods and then get fancy with them. It pains my history-obsessed heart to admit it, but knitting's a recent invention (put against the backdrop of all of human history, anyway).
Among some historians (I won't name names), there seems to be a lot of, um, denial going on about where knitting was developed. There is a fairly obvious trail of artifacts from Egypt to Moorish-occupied Spain, and up into the rest of Europe. Some rather Eurocentric types claim this isn't evidence enough to 'prove' that knitting was invented in the Middle East, so I'll pile on a few more points in favor of a Middle-Eastern invention of knitting. Keep in mind we're discussing the Middle Ages.
The first dateable hunk of knitting found in Europe is from Spain (the Spain that was, at the time, held by Arabic peoples), in a tomb that was sealed up in 1275, slap in the middle of the darkest of the Dark Ages. And YET, all of the early knitting fragments have writing knit into them. Many of the sock fragments have 'Allah' knit in bands around them, assumed to function as a blessing. The pillow in Spain has 'blessing' in a decorative Arabic script knit around the edges. We can pretty safely assume that knitting words into knitting was done almost from the first, at a time Europe was largely illiterate. It was the Islamic world that had wide-spread literacy. No one's gonna convince me that an illiterate was the one who came up with the idea to knit words into a sock. So, the early knitting fragments were produced by someone literate, and most literate people were found somewhere in the Islamic world. Particularly literate people with a knowledge of decorative Arabic scripts.
Added to that, for the first four or five hundred years of knitting's history, the most common materials were cotton and silk. Not wool. Cotton and silk were far easier to come by in the Middle East than in Europe. If knitting had started in Europe, I imagine they'd have used wool first. Or maybe linen.
My final proof is how we knit. Ever notice we work the stitches from right to left? Ever wonder why? We write left to right... doesn't it follow that we would KNIT left to right? Only if we invented it in the first place. Arabic is written from right to left. I'm betting that our current knitting method is a holdover from that. (We knit right to left today because some Arabic person started doing it that way over a thousand years ago. History is so cool.)
So what do we know? Knitting kind of appeared, poof, probably in Egypt or an adjoining land, sometime around 1000CE and spread rapidly, moving along trade routes into Europe. Another theory holds that knitting was brought back to Europe during the Crusades (1095-1291), but I can't imagine the Crusaders taking time off from raping and pillaging to share sock-making techniques in the Middle East. Call me a cynic. I can't imagine a bunch of Arabs taking a break from being attacked to teach some stinky Europeans how to knit, either.
From the 1275 pillow found in Spain, things fan out in terms of direction, and speed up. There are 'clumsily made' gloves from France dating to the 1200s (someone teaching themselves to knit, having seen a trade good?) Then liturgical gloves in a German tomb, dated to 1297, similar to the ones found in the Victoria and Albert Museum:

At this stage, knitting was still a luxury trade item; it was created from imported silks and cottons, and made into non-vital things like pillows, liturgical gloves, and small bags.
In the 1350s, paintings called 'knitting madonnas' began to appear. They depict the Virgin Mary knitting; the paintings are detailed enough to show that SOMEONE in Europe knew how to knit. The painting thought to be the earliest of them is found in Northern Italy (not far from Spain, especially if you think in terms of trade routes). Another knitting Madonna was painted in Germany around 1400. The knowledge of how to knit was starting to spread, quickly.

In the mid-1500s, the first and only major new technique was introduced to knitting: the purl stitch. First found on a pair of stockings in a tomb in Toledo, Spain, dated to 1562. Up until then, all those socks had curly edges. Can you imagine?
By the 1500s, most of the wealthy in Europe had at least one pair of knit socks (these were the days of shortie trunk hose and loooong socks for men, remember), and possibly a knit undershirt or jacket.
In 1566, King Eric of Sweden had a garment inventory done; he owned twenty-seven pairs of silk stockings imported from Spain, each pair costing the same as his valet's ANNUAL salary (What a clothes horse! He's lucky he didn't have taxpayers to answer to).
The gauge on these stockings was completely insane; Nancy Bush says the gauge of one pair is 25 stitches and 32 rows PER INCH. Yes, INCH. This was before the invention of knitting frames or anything else in terms of automation; these babies were knit by hand. (For the sake of the knitters, I hope they were done in direct sunlight, but I'm betting not. Poor things.)

Knitted jackets and shirts were also popular at this time, usually knit from silk and gilt threads. (Gilt yarn at the time was made from actual metal. Can you imagine how fun THAT was to knit with? It probably tarnished and looked like crap within the year, too.) Looking at this jacket, you can see that they were still following woven ideals for fit and cut. The undershirts are very much like woven undershirts of the day, something like a modern Henley, with a longer, flaring shirt tail. Charles the I of England was said to be wearing one of these undershirts when he was beheaded in 1649. (Sky blue silk at a gauge of 8.5 stitches per cm, or about 17 stitches PER INCH.) Knitting was still pretty exclusive, but not for long. Economics reared its ugly head, in the form of supply and demand.
Demand being insanely high, cottage industries began to appear; a hat-knitting guild appeared in England in 1424, along with many others across Europe. Once the common man knew how to knit, the obvious happened. We started knitting for ourselves. One of the first of the commonly available knitted products was the 'acorn hat', made of felted wool. This one dates to the 1600s. That's right, it took us about five hundred years to make common 'everyday' knitting out of wool.
After this, the history is pretty predictable; the knowledge of knitting spread around the world, following trade routes. Sailors were big fans of knitting, since it was small, portable, and gave them something to do on long voyages. Back in Europe, the peasants gradually began adding knitting to their folk costumes, giving us all those lovely ethnic sweaters we (okay, I) love to knit.
Over the years, the role of knitting has shifted regularly, from high-demand luxury item to low-demand folk craft, and back again. In the Victorian era, knitting became a parlor art, used to make all sorts of exquisitely fine laces, bags, and baby clothes. They seem to be the ones who introduced fine beadwork to knitting, stringing tiny beads onto sewing thread and knitting it into fabric.

The next revolution in knitting was the idea of knitwear as sportswear, coming from two places at once -- British royalty and the Paris designers. The Prince of Wales began wearing Fair Isle sweaters to golf in (the one below is similar to his, but no one knows where the original is, if it still exists).
Then Elsa Schiaparelli mass-produced her 'bow knot' sweater, the crowds went wild, and the rest is history. (Thankfully. I'd hate having to wear wovens all the time.)
In the 1930s, the depression hit, and around the world, several co-ops were set up to help women earn money by knitting. The (deservedly) most famous of these was Bohus Stickning, founded in Sweden by Emma Jacobsson. The sweaters are still known among hard-core knitters like myself, as amazing examples of color and design, proof that with care and attention, any craft can be made into art. Below is a photo of one of their most popular designs, the "Blue Shimmer".
[Blue shimmer photo from the Bohuslans Museum.
The thing that made knitting so immediately popular when it was invented, is what makes it popular even today: it's simplicity. With two sticks and some string, you can create literally any article of clothing (And not only is that simple, it's pretty darn cool). We occasionally add a new technique, but for the most part knitting is unchanged from twelve hundred years ago, when some poor nalbinder dumped their needle and said 'there has to be a better way'. Knitwear is as popular as ever, if not more so; people learn to knit daily, and classes are booming. Scientists have begun knitting nylon arteries to transplant into bodies, and metallic shields for hoses. It will be interesting to see what knitting will do next.
NOTES:
All photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum unless otherwise noted. The V&A has a great online knitting exhibit available at Victoria and Albert Museum Knitting Exhibit.
"A History of Hand Knitting" by Richard Rutt contains a lot of interesting photos of historical knit pieces, and charts of their patterns.
"Folk Socks" by Nancy Bush not only has a great history of socks in it, but contains a lot of modernized patterns for historically significant socks, including a very nice adaptation of the ancient Islamic socks.
Vogue Knitting's Winter 2005/2006 issue has a discussion of "Armenian Knitting" the technique used by Elsa Schiaparelli's knitters to produce the Bow Jumper. It is written by Meg Swansen and contains detailed directions and an example pattern.
The Bohus sweater is from the Bohuslan Museum. According to the site, there are yarn packs and kits available; I've tried the contact information and gotten no reply. If anyone else has information on that, let me know? Otherwise, "Poems of Color" by Wendy Keele contains a history of Bohus Stickning and an assortment of patterns and charts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie lives on the East Coast with her husband, daughter, and cat. With a baby in the house, she's giving up stranded color on size four needles and is thinking fond thoughts of super-bulky yarns knit on broom sticks. In one color.
Occasionally she manages to write something. Read all about it at Samurai knitter.
© 2006 Julie Theaker. Contact Julie

Imenso a ser feito

2008-03-17T18:21:00.002Z

Estou a fazer vários trabalhos ao mesmo tempo!

E todos estão a correr bem o que é extraordinário!

Tenho o tricot para fazer antes de adormeçer ou enquanto vejo um pouco de televisão;

Tenho o tricot para uma amiga que faço nos minutos (!) livres;

Tenho o tricot para os transportes publicos.

Até tenho um tricot para viagens longas tipo transcontinentais!

Todos com exigências e dimensões diferentes.

Todos feitos com a mesma paixão!

São trabalhos feitos sem pressa, alguns feitos em profunda meditação enquanto rumino algumas ideias e domino sentimentos.

Ficam prontos quando ficarem.

Mas a ideia é essa mesmo........fazer por fazer e não para ter.

Tricotine 2

2007-06-12T10:33:00.000Z

Pois é o Tricotine ou como afinal se diz no Brasil - Rabo de gato - é muito engraçado e é uma boa forma para as crianças começarem o tricot! Será que o nome em portugues é igual? Em ingles chama-se Wonder knitter ou Knitting Nancy. Também há uns com manivela que são pequenas maquinas de tricotar! Eu comprei o meu na loja Adriano Coelho na Rua da Conceição, Lisboa. Se bem me lembro foi 12 - 15 euros. Vejam todas as possibilidades neste fantastico site! http://www.waynesthisandthat.com/knittingnancys.html

Tricotine

2007-03-31T10:08:00.000Z

Tricotine - Pequeno brinquedo que permite fazer tubos em tricot!
Muito fácil e fixe para quando se viaja de transportes publicos.
Com os tubos pode-se fazer imensas coisas, basta um pouco de imaginação. Almofadas, mantas e sacos tudo entrançado com os tubos! Eu adorei!

Antigamente usava-se muito nas escolas em trabalhos manuais. Eram feitos de madeira e hoje até são objectos de colecção. O nome tricotine é francês. Alguém sabe o nome em português?

Agulhas!

2007-03-11T01:06:00.000Z

Recebi estas agulhas fantásticas como prenda! Uma amiga trouxe do Brasil! Não sei se é possível de comprar cá. As minhas são rosa e roxo! O trabalho fica muito mais apetitoso!

Mais olhos que barriga.

2007-01-20T00:43:00.000Z

Estou muito triste...não consegui fazer as mantinhas a tempo para o Natal. Todas contribuiram imenso com trabalhos lindos e tenho muita pena de não ter sido capaz de organizar melhor o meu tempo. Fiz duas mantinhas que ficar muito giras!!! Estou a trabalhar nas outras. Demora muito mais do que pensava...os quadrados nem todos tem o mesmo tamanho e é ainda preciso rematar e pôr toda a decoração. Pensei que conseguia fazer a montagem sozinha. Não pensei que fosse tão complicado arranjar tempo... fiz a primeira manta no dia do nosso ultimo encontro de tricot mas depois de repente o tempo desapareceu!!

Esta experiencia serve de exemplo para futuros projectos. Coser os quardrados é a parte que demora mais e é mais dificil de fazer nos pequenos buracos do dia-a-dia...eu aproveitava os transportes públicos para fazer os quadrados! Agora coser é completamente diferente - só pode ser feito em casa. Tenho pouco tempo disponivel em casa. tenho pena. Porque na realidade os quadrados e as mantinhas são as unicas coisas que me apetece fazer... para além de brincar com a minha filha. Depois de ser mãe o meu trabalho já não parece tão atractivo com dantes....agora só me apetece fazer brinquedos e coisas para bebés.....

Seja como for espero conseguir fazer as mantinhas o mais depressa possível até porque queria avançar para outro projecto. Mas só depois de concluir este.....ou pelo menos esta fase deste projecto....porque estive a pensar que talvez não fosse disparatado de todo só entregar estas mantinhas no proximo Natal. O que também nos dá mais tempo para fazer mais e talvez maiores para crianças de 1,2,3 anos.

Não se preocupem porque agora já sei que não posso ter mais olhos que barriga... :)

Só agora reparei que não tenho fotos de todas as mantas que projectamos! E também não tenho das que tenho prontas... Espero que não fiquem muito desiludidas...os vosso quadradinhos lindos ainda vão aconchegar um belo bebé rechunchudo!

Só para velhinhas à lareira..?

2006-12-03T19:40:00.000Z

Para quem acha que tricotar é para velhinhas aqui está um blog para refrescar as ideias!

www.sexyknittersclub.com

Os quadrados

2006-12-03T16:28:00.000Z

Aqui estão os quadrados q mencionei antes.

+ quadrados

2006-12-03T15:20:00.000Z

Adorei esta ideia!
No sábado (2 Dez) cheguei tarde... mas ainda a tempo de deixar 2 quadrados.
Hoje já terminei + 3

Livro com ideias optimas!

2006-12-03T15:01:00.000Z

A Beatriz trouxe mais um livro fantástico! Estive a ver e tem ideias muito boas e e coloridas para quadrados de crochet. Eu vou já a Fnac ver se ele anda por lá! Fica aqui a dica para quem se quiser actualizar no crochet! "200 crochet blocks for blankets, throws and afghans" Jan Eaton, David & Charles (ed) 12.99 £ ISBN 0-7153-2141-2

Primeiro encontro "Tricot a meias"

2006-12-03T13:34:00.000Z

Correu muito bem o nosso primeiro encontro no espaço Goma 386! Estiveram presentes 6 tricotadeiras e tivemos contribuições de de duas que não puderam estar presentes. Adorei todos os quadrados! Eram lindos os quadrados da Sofia com cores muito suaves e alegres! Os quadrados da Laura deram um ar fofinho com uma lã mt grossa! A Andreia tinha uns espetaculares e a Beatriz trouxe uns com umas cores fantásticas! O resultado foi que conseguimos iníciar 3 mantinhas! Para as terminar necessitamos de 11 quadrados em tons de verde azul e castanhos ( não aparece na imagem mas eu tenho mais dois), 6 quadrados em tons de rosa, laranja amarelo, verde água, branco e 5 quadrados em tons de rosa forte, azul médio escuro, vermelho e roxo. Acho que estão bem giras! A disposição dos quadrados na imagem não é definitiva foi só para a foto!Para as decorar tinha pensado que podiamos fazer estrelas brancas em feltro para a manta de tons vermelhos e azuis, uma grinalda de flores em crochet para a manta clara para ser aplicada em onda sobre os quadrados, e folhas outonais em feltro para a manta verde. Eu vou fazer elementos para decorar mas adorava quem mais alguém fizesse também para não ficar tudo igual! Outas ideias são sempre bem vindas!

Nestas mantinhas até agora participaram a Ana Sofia (não sei o teu último nome), Andreia Marques , Beatriz Silva, Fátima Cabacinha, Margarida Mendes, Maria Rosa Domingos, Laura Bridges-Pereira, Sónia Domingos (eu!)

O espaço é bastante adequado para a montagem dos quadrados visto que dispõe de uma mesa grande branca suficientemente grande para montar duas de cada vez. No entanto como a maioria das participantes neste projecto fazem parte do grupo de tricot Stich & Bitch, e como os dois próximos encontros coincidem - dia 16, vamos montar as mantinhas na Loja "Outra façe da Lua". Assim conseguimos participar do encontro de tricot e montar as mantinhas ao mesmo tempo!

8!

2006-11-29T21:19:00.000Z

Já somos oito a fazer quadrados! O projecto está a ter uma enorme aceitação e acho que vamos ter agulhas para caminhar! Eu já fiz 4 quadrados e espero até sábado conseguir fazer mais 2. Estou a fazer quadrados para o tema de natal e mar, mas se não houver o suficiente para fazer mantinhas com estes temas vão todos para a manta da ávozinha!Aqui estão os meus quadrados!

Isto foi roubado mas está muito fixe

2006-11-18T00:27:00.000Z

The wonders of wool: soakers, shorts and longies

Here's something you don't hear someone say every day: Wool is sexy. OH SO sexy.Okay, so maybe "sexy" isn't the right adjective to use, when you're talking about something you want to wrap around a baby bum. I'm just so seriously enamoured with wool right now, I can't think of a better word to use. Wool is quite simply the coolest textile EVER.
Here's why: wool is so absorbent, it can hold double its weight in liquid and still not feel wet. You dig what I'm saying? A five-ounce wool diaper cover (more commonly known as a wool soaker) can absorb up to 10 ounces of liquid (and that doesn't include the liquid held in the diaper itself) and still not leak. Wool sucks the moisture away from baby's skin and is perfectly breathable, which means even babies with sensitive skin are far less likely to get a rash.You know what that means, don't you? Say helloooooooo to a good night's sleep. If you don't have to change your baby in the middle of the night, then you don't run the risk of waking your baby up so much that he or she has trouble returning to sleep. And the faster you get that baby back to sleep after you feed it, the more sleep YOU get at night.(And that's something I've discovered since becoming a parent: sleep = sanity. It's why we don't need so much of it when we're in our teens and twenties. Sanity isn't what those periods of our life are about. Of course, neither is parenthood, so there you go. But I digress.)Wool. It's simply wonderful.
But wait -- it gets even better. Wool has natural antibacterial properties that enable it to kill odors completely. A diaper can be absolutely saturated with baby pee and once it's dry, you know what it smells like? Wool. That's it. I know that many of you who haven't already fallen into the wool vortex may have a hard time believing this, but it's true, brownie's honour.In fact, a diaper can be absolutely saturated with baby pee for up to three weeks running, and you know what it'll smell like when it dries after 21 days of such treatment? Wool. Uh huh. That's right. Wool.It comes in soakers and wraps, and also shorts and longies that can double as pants. Imagine wearing a simple cotton prefold diaper under pants like these?Or these? Or how about these?Wool. It's the best thing to wear when it's cold AND the best thing to wear when it's hot.It's the coolest. Thing. Ever.Seriously. Is that sexy or what?
posted by metamom

Tricot a meias - Um novo grupo!

2006-11-17T20:29:00.000Z

Há já a algum tempo que ando a saborear esta ideia...criar um grupo de tricot mas um grupo diferente - que tenha projectos de artesanato urbano em conjunto em que o tricot seja o componente principal. Gostava que através de pequenas peças feitas individualmente construíssemos obras de conjunto como mantas ou quadros. Peças construidas através da colaboração de várias pessoas que não se conhecem mas que se juntam para um objectivo.

As peças realizadas podem ser oferecidas ou leiloadas para ajudar associações ou projectos em risco.Trata-se portanto de um projecto sem fins lucrativos, mas que pode eventualmente receber percentagem de lucros (no caso de leilões) para compra de materiais (utilizados no acabamento final).

Os projectos são lançados aqui não sendo naturalmente necessário participar em todos. Ideias para projectos são sempre bem vindas. Devem no entanto envolver o tricot ou o crochet e terem um fim solidário.

A participação pode ser activa (o que eu adorava) ou só contribuitiva. No primeiro caso não só se contribui com os elementos necessários para as obras como se opina e auxilia na montagem e decoração final. No segundo caso ideial para quem tem menos tempo mas quer participar na mesma, é só a entrega de elementos (quadrados ou rectângulos) para as obras. (ver morada no fim)

Aproveitando a época de Natal proponho como primeiro projecto a construção de mantinhas para bebés a serem doadas a Ajuda de Berço. Cada mantinha tem de ter 20 quadrados de 15 por 15 cm, assim no fim o tamanho será 60 x 75 cm. Gostava que conseguissemos fazer 5 mantinhas pelo que precisamos de 100 quadrados! Os quadrados serão depois montados sobre tecido polar (bem quentinho), recebendo ou não no fim elementos decorativos de feltro, tecido, crochet ou outros ( conforme a inspiração).

Como temas para as mantinhas lembrei-me de:

- o Natal (quadrados predominantemente vermelhos, brancos, castanhos, azuis, cinza, verdes)

- o Mar (quadrados predominantemente azuis e verdes)

- o Bosque (verdes, castanhos, amarelos, vermelhos, rosas, laranja)

- Ávozinha (todas as cores com fazia a ávozinha!)

O que é a Ajuda de Berço?

A Ajuda de Berço, fundada em 1998, acolhe crianças dos 0 aos 3 anos, necessitadas de protecção urgente, face a situações que as coloquem em risco, tais como maus tratos, abusos sexuais, pais alcoólicos ou toxicodependentes, prostituição, falta de lar ou abandono.

A Ajuda de Berço nasce da consciência de que toda a Vida pede amor.Uma consciência que se manifesta através do empenho na defesa da Vida e na tentativa, sempre débil, de viver na caridade que surge do amor por Cristo.Desde o inicío da Instituição que esta acolheu para sua padroeira Madre Teresa de Calcutá pela sua simplicidade, incansável dedicação ao mais desprotegidos e exemplar amor a Deus.Procura encontrar o sentido da vida, partilhando-a com os mais frágeis e procurando responder ás suas necessidades.
O objectivo da Ajuda de Berço é procurar responder com eficácia, segurança e afectividade à situação de desamparo em que se pode encontrar uma criança. Enquanto o fazem dão abrigo, colo e todos os cuidados necessários aos pequeninos que lhes são confiados.

Vamos tentar contribuir para esta associação com aquilo que gostamos e sabemos fazer!

Os encontros serão ao primeiro sábado de cada mês na loja "A outra Face da Lua"situada na Sé. O primeiro encontro é já no dia 2 de Dezembro as 15 horas! Devem trazer quadrados feitos para que possamos começar a delinear as mantinhas. O prazo final para entrega de quadrados é dia 16 de Dezembro ( encontro extra para compôr estas mantinhas com os últimos quadrados) pois precisamos de tempo para os unir e construir a manta. Queria também oferecer as mantinhas antes do dia de Natal.

Este projecto é extraordinário e terá de se desenvolver rapidamente visto que temos pouco tempo. Queria no entanto que ele tivesse continuidade e que todos os anos pudessemos oferecer mantinhas a associações.

Estão convidadas a participar!

Como este espaço não tem um café convido-vos a um lanche no local - chá e bolinhos! Claro que aceito participação também para o lanche!

Morada para o envio de quadrados:

Sónia Domingos - Travessa Senhora da Glória nº22, 3ºEsq 1170-357 Lisboa

e-mail: soniadomingos@sapo.pt

Morada do local de encontro:

A outra face da Lua - Calçada do Correio Velho, nº 7 (Sé de Lisboa).

Fica junto ao largo da Igreja de Stº António.